DBMS > Dolt vs. EXASOL vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. EXASOL vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.exasol.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Exasol

Embarcadero

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2000

1984

2017

1989

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes, in Lua

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Interbase Change Views

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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